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Here might he see long vessels rolling, not with great misery, but just enough to make him feel happy in the firmness of his bench, and little jolly-boats it was more jolly to be out of, and faraway heads giving genial bobs, and sea-legs straddled in predicaments desirable rather for study than for practice.
We land finally, pass the Custom House without examination, and with sea-legs which are far from steady reach our hotel. A bite of supper but what fearful creatures again to bow and wait on us! More demons. We laugh every minute at some funny performance, and wonder where we can be; but how surprisingly good every thing is which we eat or drink on land after twenty-two days at sea!
Give him a little time to get the use of his wits in emergencies, and to know the little arts that do so much for a patient's comfort, just as you give a young sailor time to get his sea-legs on and teach his stomach to behave itself, and he will do well enough. The old Master knows ten times more about this matter and about all the professions, as he does about everything else, than I do.
"I'm not quite so sure," said Hockins; "you must remember I've only got sea-legs on but I'll try." And he did try, and so did the others; with such success, too, that before the sun set that evening they had penetrated into the very heart of the mountain range which runs through the centre of the island.
Steady! you have not shipped your sea-legs yet, as our friend the first lieutenant would say; you must be cautious, or you will be thrown against something or other, and get a nasty knock. Well, and how do you feel this morning?" "A trifle weak," I replied, "that's all. I dare say I shall be better when I have had breakfast."
Oh! you warm, comfortable people, how I, in this heaving uncertain horror of a ship, envy you! 25th. You mustn't think I have been lying here all the time. On Tuesday we managed to get on deck, and on Wednesday it was warm and sunny, and we began to enjoy life again and to congratulate ourselves on having got our sea-legs.
The moon made the best of this, which stands in a wide open space, and contrived, with an Italian skill in the arrangement of light, to produce an effect of undeniable splendor. On the morrow, we found out by the careless candor of the daylight what a uselessly big head Columbus had, and how the sculptor had not very happily thought proper to represent him with his sea-legs on.
I said, as we both struggled up. "Oh, horri no, no, not much, thank you," he muttered. "I I haven't quite got my sea-legs yet, as you sailors call it. That's better. Now if you wouldn't mind, Mr Dale." I didn't mind, of course, and I helped him all I could, thinking all the while he was like a big fat boy we used to have at school, only Mr Preddle was nearly three times the size.
"I can't say," answered the stray, with a serious air; "I ain't studied the 'uman frame wery much, but I should say, 'e'll bust by to-morrow if 'e goes on like 'e's bin doin'." A tremendous sound from little Mouse, who lay in a neighbouring bunk, seemed to justify the prophecy. But little Mouse did not "bust." He survived that storm, and got his sea-legs on before the next one.
"For goodness' sake!" exclaimed Bobby, when she saw Tommy slipping all over the icy sidewalk, "what is the matter with that boy?" "He hasn't got his sea-legs on," grinned Short and Long. "You mean to tell me he is nearly five years old and can walk no better than that?" exclaimed Bobby teasingly. "Why, we have a little dog at home that isn't even a year old yet, and he can ran right over this ice.
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